Open source is the future and is a main driver for development on many levels including but not limited to technical, social, and economic development. In our part of the world, we're not playing an important role in open source, we're not benefiting from it to the maximum, and Arabized features are still lacking in many areas. My lightning talk will hopefully persuade developers to take action, contribute more and more to open source, and assist in taking the whole ecosystem to the next level.

1. Contributing Open Source
Arabization Features
WHAT?
what is missing
HOW?
WHY?
why you should contribute
how you can contribute
2012 ArabNet Lightning Talk / Mario Awad / Founder & Developer at SOFTKUBE s.a.r.l.

2. WHAT?
1. Multilingual support (WordPress, Drupal…)
2. Numbering & Accounting
3. Date & Currency formatting
4. Unicode features (PHP)
5. Layout optimizations to support RTL languages
6. Plenty of other features that need work!

3. HOW?
1. Tweet & share community solutions
2. Comment & contribute to community solutions
3. Your blog entries (no matter how small)
4. Your contribution to popular systems
5. Your standalone open source plugins and modules
6. Basically anything, SHARE IT!

4. WHY?
1. BENEFIT you will
2. Your projects will
3. Your clients will
4. Your company will
5. Your network / country / region will
THE WHOLE WORLD WILL!

5. THANK YOU!
Mario
Awad Founder & Developer @
Get in touch Resources & Credits
@marioawad softkube.com/blog/arabnet2012
mario.awad [at] softkube.com
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